Word: typhoonous
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...first Soviet Typhoon-class nuclear submarine has completed its sea trials and is now in the Northern Fleet. Each of its 20 ballistic missiles carries from six to nine nuclear warheads with a range of 5,000 miles. "It can fire from the security of Soviet home waters and hit targets in North America, Europe and Asia," said Weinberger. Construction of a second Typhoon has just been completed...
Such a character was Captain Mac Whirr of Joseph Conrad's short story Typhoon, a man whose physiognomy was "the exact counterpart of his mind: it had no pronounced characteristics whatever; it was simply ordinary, irresponsive, and unruffled." Mac Whirr, said Conrad, had "just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day." Yet that meager imagination became the hero of the tale, for when a monstrous storm arose at sea, and the good captain was advised by all the voices of reason to sail around and behind the trouble, he of the consistent mind responded, "A gale...
...protective ozone layer being destroyed?) to the nature of tomorrow's weather. Since meteorological satellites began sending back television-type pictures of cloud formations and weather fronts in the 1960s, there has not been a single death from hurricanes for lack of warning. A new satellite-based typhoon warning system, now being planned by East Asian nations, should save countless lives and drastically reduce the region's $3 billion-a-year storm damage...
...Hong Kong, where the most authoritarian portrait on public display shows the eyes of an anonymous Asian woman commanding citizens not to litter, the rising if still distant threat of reunification has hit like a typhoon. After Thatcher's visit, share prices on Hong Kong's stock market crashed 21% last week, while the Hong Kong dollar dropped by 4½%to U.S. $0.16, a new low. To deepen the gloom, Hong Kong's Financial Secretary, John Bremridge, announced last week that the colony's economy has been faring far worse this year than expected. Real...
...Soviet document, which was also a weakness of the Reagan Administration's effort, is that it does not address U.S. and Soviet forces in comparative terms. Thus much is said about the U.S.'s Ohio class Trident submarine, but nothing about the U.S.S.R.'s new Typhoon equivalent; much about the B-1 bomber, but nothing about a new Soviet strategic bomber under development. The Soviets term the U.S. space shuttle a "space attack system," but omit mention of their own orbiting "killer" satellite...